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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close May 17 – May 24, 2023 194 stories · Vol. 23 · Catalogue 21 · Issue 144 Get it by email ↓
The week's top story

Surgeon General: Social media may pose risk to teen mental health

Dr. Vivek Murthy urged policymakers and tech companies to take "immediate action" to protect young people.

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Top Stories 1 stories

  1. Disney to close its "Star Wars" hotel that opened last year

Business 10 stories

  1. Venture Predation

  2. Binance commingled customer funds and company revenue, former insiders say

  3. €1.2B GDPR fine for Meta

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  1. AI boom could expose investors’ natural stupidity

  2. UK’s GDPR replacement could wipe out oversight of live facial recognition

  3. iPhone maker Wistron quits, saying Apple didn't let it make a profit

  4. WeWork has frittered away $46.7B in value as the stock sinks below ¢50

Sports 8 stories

  1. Kanboard: free and open source Kanban project management software

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  1. Legend of Zelda game sells 10M copies in three days

  2. I wrote a GameBoy emulator for my hobby OS (2022)

  3. Following UK antitrust order, Meta sells Giphy to Shutterstock for $53M

Technology 153 stories

  1. Don Knuth plays with ChatGPT

  2. Seattle Amazon workers plan walkout over return to office, layoffs

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  1. Drag Your GAN: Interactive Point-Based Manipulation of Images

  2. Memory Allocation

  3. Same Stop: Life after 26 years as a programmer for Apple

  4. Orb Farm

  5. What happened with ASUS routers this morning?

Entertainment 11 stories

  1. Show HN: Beepberry – a portable e-paper computer for hackers

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  1. Leaked government document shows Spain wants to ban end-to-end encryption

  2. Show HN: YouTube Full Text Search – Search all of a channel from the commandline

  3. Linux tool to show progress for cp, mv, dd

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